Yumeng Gao

Dr. Yumeng Gao is the Research Director and a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF).

Her research primarily focuses on sustainable finance, emphasizing its applications in empirical corporate finance and banking. Her work covers the topics of financial implications of corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices, ESG disclosure, environmental finance, employee relations, impact investing, shareholder activism, and socially responsible investing. Yumeng’s work has been published in the Journal of Environmental Management and the Journal of Portfolio Management.

Before joining YISF, Yumeng received a PhD in Finance at University College Dublin in 2022, where she was also an adjunct lecturer of the course Green Data Science.

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